STRONGS NUMBER H3336


Word Summary
yetser: a form, framing, purpose
Original Word: יֵצֶר
Transliteration: yetser
Phonetic Spelling: (yay'-tser)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a form, framing, purpose
Meaning: a form, framing, purpose
Strong's Concordance
frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work

From yatsar; a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. Purpose) -- frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.

see HEBREW yatsar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3336. yetser

I. יֵ֫צָרnoun masculineIsaiah 26:3 form, framing, purpose; — ׳יGenesis 6:5 5t.; יִצְדוֺDeuteronomy 31:21; Habakkuk 2:18; יִצְרֵנוּPsalm 103:14; —

1 pottery, formed by the potter Isaiah 29:16.

2 form of a graven image Habakkuk 2:18.

3 form of man as made of the dust Psalm Hab 103:14.

4 of what is framed in the mind (compare יָצַר

1c, 2 b), imagination, device, purpose: לב(בׅ מחשׁב(ו)ת יצרGenesis 6:5 (J), 1 Chronicles 29:18; ׳י מחשׁבות28:9; ׳י לבGenesis 8:21 (J); יֵצֶר‎ alone Deuteronomy 31:21 (J); סָמוּךְ יֵצֶרIsaiah 26:3 a stedfast purpose (or frame of mind). (In Late Hebrew יֵצֶר‎ is common in sense of impulse: הטוב יצר‎ and הרע יצר‎ of good and bad tendency in man.)